Our presentation made at Odisha Vikash Conclave on the importance of enabling environment to improve food and nutrition security in Odisha

1. Building Momentum for Impact
Improving food and nutrition situation in Odisha
Odisha Vikash Conclave – 2018Odisha Vikash Conclave – 2018
Food & Nutrition Track : 25th August
Jitendra Rath & Sameet Panda
Collective Action for Nutrition

2. Components of Nutrition Intervention
Lancet’s Framework
1. Nutrition specific
interventions &
programmesprogrammes
2. Nutrition sensitive
programmes and
approaches
3. Building an enabling
environment

3. Building Momentum
Creating environment
Enabling environment is a political and policy process
that build and sustain momentum for the effective
implementation of action that reduce underimplementation of action that reduce under
nutrition (Lancet; 2013)
Therefore nutrition specific and sensitive programmes
are like hard wares while enabling environment
functions as a software of any nutrition intervention

4. Enabling Environment Includes
Policy Environment
Framing policies & programmes focusing
on improving nutrition, leadership &
Commitment
Facilitating Environment
Activating systems, building capacities,
Enabling Environment
Activating systems, building capacities,
Convergence, monitoring, Transparency
& Accountability, evidence building
Sustaining Environment
Community involvement to community
ownership, Knowledge dissemination,
leadership at local level , Active civil
society

5. Enabling Environment
Odisha Experience
Stunting 34.1% (NFHS IV, 15-16) from 45.0% (NFHS III, 05-06)
Wasting 20.4% (NFHS IV, 15-16) from 19.6% (NFHS III, 05-06)
Underweight 34.4% (NFHS IV, 15-16) from 40.7% (NFHS III, 05-06)
Key Policies & Plans Key Programme & Schemes
Nutrition Operation Plan (2009-13-
15)
Odisha Multi Sector Nutrition Action
Plan (ONAP- 2015-25)
Mamata Scheme (2011)
Convergence between ICDS & Health
through VHND
Decentralization of ICDS (2011)
Shaktivarta (13-16)
Other programmes (mo masari etc.)
National Food Security Act
State Food Security Scheme
Revision of ICDS norm revision

6. Enabling Environment
Odisha Experience –positive areas
• Enabling policy environment
• Support from civil society and development
partnerspartners
• Leadership and commitment at higher level

7. Enabling Environment
Where Odisha lagging behind
Policy Environment
Framing policies & programmes focusing
on improving nutrition, leadership &
Commitment
Facilitating Environment
Enabling Environment
Facilitating Environment
Activating systems, building capacities,
Convergence, monitoring, Transparency
& Accountability, evidence building
Sustaining Environment
Community involvement to community
ownership, Knowledge dissemination,
leadership at local level , Active civil
society

8. Experiences
Collective Action for Nutrition Initiative
AIM
Reducing malnutrition
among children and
women by facilitating
efficient implementation
of food and nutrition
programmes, ensuring
transparency, downward
STRATEGIES
Community mobilisation
through campaigns
Capacity building of the
stakeholders
Model building for
replication
OUTCOMES
Enhanced knowledge of
community on NFSA and
improved accessibility
Active participation of
community in decision making
on access and entitlements to
food and nutrition programmestransparency, downward
accountability and
community participation
Social audit is used as a
significant process in this
regard which strives to
facilitate demand
generation while
strengthening service
delivery
Evidence building based on
action
Advocacy with Government
food and nutrition programmes
Increase in uptake of services
by adolescent girls, pregnant
and lactating mothers and
children below two years.
Gram Panchayats taking action
on issues related to nutrition.
Institutionalisation of social
audit and grievance redressal
mechanism by the state
Government

9. Focusing where it needs most
Collective Action for Nutrition Initiative
Leadership
at local level
Capacity
Building of
stakeholders
Creating
local
convergence
platforms
Social Audit
Knowledge
Building of
community
Community
Monitoring
Individual
Grievance to
community
concern

10. Enabling Environment
Takeaways
• Ownership of Janta and Jan Pratinidhi in Poshan Jan Andolan
• Institutionalizing social audit can play a significant role in creating
facilitating and sustaining environment.
• Social audit could be a mechanism for third party monitoring of MIS
hosted by the concern departmentshosted by the concern departments
• PRIs has the potential and need to be involved in furthering nutrition
intervention – need capacity building, handholding and recognition
• Strengthening community institutions and promoting community
monitoring. Need to move forward from involvement to ownership
• Scaling up of the proven mechanisms by pilot models

11. Thank You